I was at a football match last night. At the end of the game I commented to my son how poorly I thought one player had performed. A mix of bad passes, mistakes and poor decision making contributed to my assessment. A chap walking in front of us suggested the opposite Andy that the player… Read More Performance focus
I’ve been discussing evaluation for a while now. From identifying why we need principles to support our evaluation strategy, to potential metrics and places to collect performance data. One thing I realised I hadn’t gone into detail was the reasons why we need to offer up and report different interactions with learning and performance outcomes.… Read More Explaining evaluation
Looking at data around the effectiveness of learning, I’m always drawn to the point where people are asked how they felt the training/learning/event was and are asked to score it on a simple 1-6, or worse, 1-5 scale. How can you say what something is like when you don’t have a comparator? We could be… Read More How’s that?
If people perform well at school they don’t go on to change the world. One reason for their success in education is they understand the importance in following processes and delivering what’s asked for within the constraints of the system. They are also great at working out what is being tested – the content –… Read More 85% pass rate
Comedians have an immediate feedback loop – their joke lands or it doesn’t. It sometimes feels like the learning function wants immediate feedback and creating happy sheets is the way we do it. Learning is like comedy in that it may create an emotional response. The difference is that learning usually don’t need to know… Read More Feedback loop
Lost and Desperate 